Russia Doesn’t Want Or Need All Of Ukraine, Only Enough To Deny Kyiv An Outlet To The Sea – OpEd

Many suffer under the misapprehension that Moscow wants to absorb all of Ukraine, the ZeRada telegram channel says. But that it incorrect: Russia needs only to absorb what are now Ukrainian territories along the Black Sea littoral, including Odessa, so that a landlocked and much weakened Ukraine won’t be able to join...